Little projects to improve techniques. Colored pencil, watercolor pencil, acrylics, pen and ink, watercolor. Mixed media.
Keep in mind that everything looks different in color. Will post the 'finished' doodle.
Today I am thankful for melting snow, old friends, new friends and family. For leftovers so I don't have to cook. For kitty-cats that curl up on your lap for a nap. For dancing flames in the wood stove.
A couple other sketches...
Doodles can be anything, can't they?
Columbine, blue-eyed grass, bleeding heart, trillium, bluet, coltsfoot, lily of the valley, grape hyacinth, crocus.
This was a study for a larger piece.
Chicory ~ Cichorium intybus
Growing beside roadways amid feathery crown vetch. A beautiful shade of periwinkle blue. As a child I believed that was the plants 'proper' name.
The leaves can be used in salad (but they are bitter).
The roots may be baked, ground and used for coffee.
Never tried as coffee. Have you?
Queen Anne's Lace ~ Daucus carota.
Also known as 'wild carrot'. Sister and I gathered bunches of these when we were 'little'. We would bring them in to Grandma and she would put them in several juice glasses with drops of food coloring. When the flowers became 'thirsty' they would draw the colored water up their stems - making the veins in the stems and the flower petals change color. Quite amazing. I would imagine with the change in food coloring it would be necessary to use real dye (like RIT) to achieve that effect now.
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